Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 Seiten |
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... better in a style they have never before tried . While our indigenous styles prevailed , they imparted to the humblest mechanic an instinctive sense of beauty and of propriety of form ; the exotic style , on the contrary , has utterly ...
... better in a style they have never before tried . While our indigenous styles prevailed , they imparted to the humblest mechanic an instinctive sense of beauty and of propriety of form ; the exotic style , on the contrary , has utterly ...
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... better left undone ; that both in repairing and building we have done much which we would gladly undo : true , that our new churches are often very far from carrying out the spirit of the style we aim at ; still the aim is a great point ...
... better left undone ; that both in repairing and building we have done much which we would gladly undo : true , that our new churches are often very far from carrying out the spirit of the style we aim at ; still the aim is a great point ...
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... better understood in the sixteenth century than in the fourteenth , while the converse was the case with church architecture . Others , again , are willing to go a step further , and take the Tudor style for their domestic type , as the ...
... better understood in the sixteenth century than in the fourteenth , while the converse was the case with church architecture . Others , again , are willing to go a step further , and take the Tudor style for their domestic type , as the ...
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... better , if only it be good . This brings me to the third of the causes which have hitherto impeded our success , -our want of bold- ness in adapting our architecture to our requirements , and thus making it thoroughly our own . This ...
... better , if only it be good . This brings me to the third of the causes which have hitherto impeded our success , -our want of bold- ness in adapting our architecture to our requirements , and thus making it thoroughly our own . This ...
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... better . This divorce of secular from ecclesiastical architec- ture is a fancy of only the last few years . It was never heard of in former days ; but in our day it is especially absurd , so far as it applies to houses in the pointed ...
... better . This divorce of secular from ecclesiastical architec- ture is a fancy of only the last few years . It was never heard of in former days ; but in our day it is especially absurd , so far as it applies to houses in the pointed ...
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Seite 117 - ... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.
Seite 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Seite 287 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Seite 119 - I am quite assured that all the irregularities that are so beautiful in ancient architecture are the result of certain necessary difficulties, and were never purposely designed ; for to make a building inconvenient for the sake of obtaining irregularity would be scarcely less ridiculous than preparing working drawings for a new ruin. But all these inconsistencies have arisen from this great error, — the plans of buildings are designed to suit the elevation, instead of the elevation being made subservient...
Seite 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Seite 118 - An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties; and this constitutes the great difference between the principles of classic and pointed domestic architecture. In the former he would be compelled to devise expedients to conceal these irregularities; in the latter he has only to beautify them.
Seite 4 - It is not too much to say that the ruling theology of the Church of England in the latter half of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was...
Seite 117 - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...